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“Exactly two years after the Unite the Right rally, the lead organizer of the deadly white supremacist event has again filed a federal lawsuit against the city of Charlottesville and various officials alleging a violation of his First Amendment rights.

Kessler voluntarily dismissed an earlier lawsuit that similarly claimed his First Amendment and 14th Amendment rights were violated.

The most recent iteration of the lawsuit drops the claim that Kessler’s 14th Amendment rights were violated and adds new defendants and plaintiffs.

In addition to Kessler, the lawsuit adds David Matthew Parrott as a plaintiff. Parrott was formerly the spokesman of the now-largely defunct Traditionalist Worker Party and, along with Kessler, is a defendant in a separate lawsuit filed by area residents against key organizers of the rally. …”

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I fully support this lawsuit. I encourage you to support it as well.

I didn’t support the Unite The Right 2 rally because I have grown skeptical of activism in the Blompf era (no effort has been made to rein in the Democratic cities issuing stand down orders), but a federal lawsuit against Charlottesville should have been our focus from August 2017.

Not continuing with the college speaking tour.

Not flash rallies which no one cares about.

Not organizing a Unite The Right 2 rally.

Not spending a whole year arguing over optics.

Not campaigning to elect more conservatives who are puppets of Jewish billionaires.

The fallout from Charlottesville was badly mishandled. We should have said nothing publicly and calmly started working on our own lawsuit.

“The most sweeping lawsuit against the promoters of the Charlottesville white power rally has been churning toward trial for two years, ever since hundreds of white supremacists and Nazis staged a torch-lit march that sparked a weekend of violence.

In that time, lawyers have been methodically pursuing a case that could demonstrate how to use the courts to combat extremism in an age when the internet has provided a global megaphone for ideas once limited to an isolated fringe.

The outcome is not a foregone conclusion. A closer look at the legal strategy in the lawsuit, known as Sines v. Kessler, illustrates the hurdles involved in putting hate and intolerance in the dock, with members of the far right habitually citing the First Amendment as their shield. …”

This was all exposed in the Heaphy Report which was an independent review conducted by a former federal prosecutor who was by hired by the City of Charlottesville to determine what went wrong that day. It was also exposed by the local media. Both sides who attended the event that day as well as bystanders have all said that the police showed no interest in maintaining order. This has become a common occurrence with rightwing events in leftwing strongholds like Berkeley and Portland. It is what happened that day in Charlottesville as well.

Two months later, the same groups who went to Charlottesville held another rally in Shelbyville, TN. The White Lives Matter rally was peaceful and uneventful because it was held in a jurisdiction that wasn’t a leftwing hothouse. The police did their jobs and there were no issues. Just as The New York Times cannot be trusted to report the news rather than give you the narrative, the lesson of Charlottesville is that leftwing cities can’t be trusted to uphold law and order and protect the First Amendment rights of every American regardless of their political leanings.

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The quality of people I am reaching is much higher than I ever did with a forum.
I'm now at the top of the racialist intellectual community in the United States.
I was a nobody when I ran The Phora.